Beware of Trolls (Canterbury) Ilam, South Island, New Zealand
By looking4thebroc on 20-Sep-06. Waypoint GCYA4J

This was my first placement way back in 2006 when I first started uni in Christchurch and had less than 50 finds to my name. The container was replaced so many times over the years and found by cacher and muggle alike, all of who signed the log. It is sad to see it go, but it appears to be gone and I cant replace it from Canada. So, I am freeing up the space for someone else to put a new and improved cache in the area.

Seems to be gone, only thing we could find was an empty nail. I've even searched the mud underneath but nothing.
(picture might contain spoiler so look for yourself first)

Dane Rumble - Cruel

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Took me a while, looking in the wrong places but easy really! TFTC.

Smallest geocache we found to date. Shame the water damage has destroyed the logbook beyond being able to log

Logbook is damaged from waterlogging

Found after the Ilam garden multi as a bycatch. We could see the cache from some angles before being able to grab it; with the wet weather today it would not have been too nice to crouch. As others have noted before, the log book is wet and quite unusable.
TFTC Yaws

Me and my family found it but all the log books are full and soaked. We couldn't even get them out.

This geocacher reported that the logbook is full.

4 of us found this, on a cool winters afternoon. TFTC
Paper was completely soaked - might need some maintenance.

Found while visiting my friend. TFTC

Log book doesn't exist anymore

Easy Find

We enjoyed finding this cache. We were unable to write in the log as has disintegrated.

Found but all the paper was wet and broken couldn’t write on it

Was about to give up when I spotted it! Unfortunately the log is FUBAR ;-;

After being fouled by another traditional cache, I needed to find this today (to fill in a dot day). Had several people walk over the bridge while I was locating this, and I felt like a right troll when crawling out from under the bridge to find some people waving at me. Log book is very wet and just about unusable

The trolls were cool but thirsty today.

Tftc

A little tricky with a young child on my back but found it anyway.

Found with nin007

Found with CBB
Pretty surroundings
Very damp inside but able to sign... just
TFTC

Great hint TFTC

13/11/2017 3:58:00 PM
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After work, - and well of course that means lets go caching time!!! So we decided to do a cache or two around the uni in this lovely weather.
And given the brother works at the uni, we called him to come join us. So him, mum & I, wondered around sorting this out.

I'm surprised I only got round to finding this now! This has been on my radar for so long!! But lovely to finally clear it off the map

TFTC!!

I was out trolling about the area at night keen to find a cache or two or ... and so I wandered over to this one and made a quick find after disturbing some people letting off fireworks. Weird there were a few fireworks going off tonight...no idea why.

Thanks looking4thebroc.

Nice quick find, tftc! (Logbook is still quite damp, btw)

First geocache. Even with the hint, there was some level of difficulty. Thanks

Tftc. Boys loved this one.

Log very moist

Luckily meow doesn't mind getting muddy! Haha. Tftc

Forgot pen. Tftc.

Good find by max

Lucky me that I was wearing my troll protection necklace today found the cache without getting attacked by a troll! Thanks a lot! Great hiding place!

Found a while ago with Kimothy92, but not logged until now.

Checked every wrong bridge first. Good find thanks

First geocache in New Zealand! Thanks for the cache from a Canadian on walkabout!

I managed to get on a work trip to Christchurch for two weeks but was faced with a dilemma. Do I go for quantity or quality? I didn't have a vehicle to use all to myself so was somewhat limited to what I could get. In the end I just found what I could when I could but the webcam and the virtual were top of my list.
A few of the others wanted to head into the city so I asked to get dropped off at the uni and would make my way into town with the aim to grab the webcam.
This was the first cache of the day. Took a while to find the right path to lead to the final but got there in the end. I had just put the cache back when someone walked by. Very close to being muggled!!
Thanks for the cache and the smiley.

First cache in NZ! Found while strolling in the late afternoon. A new logbook would be great tftc

Evening bike with brown. Easy find

One for the Billy goats, thanks for the cache!

Out for a ride with my sister picking up a couple of evening caches.

A quick find.

#6012

Found it quickly as I know we're they live! Found one just like this back home in Tasmania. TFTC

Found while out and about walking off Xmas leftovers! I thought I'd logged these from our GPSr but apparently hadn't so 4 months later a logging I will go! TFTC!

Staying at college house for World Bowls. Eventually put my hand on this one
TFTC

great cache, nice walk TFTC

Find #2618. Taking a short holiday in Christchurch to explore the city by bike and collect caches. Quick find but the log book was too wet to sign. Beautiful gardens. TFTC

I was a resident of the nearby College House for two years when I was a student and must have walked across this bridge hundreds of times. In those days (it quite possibly still is) it was a tradition to "river" people from this bridge for various reasons (riding a bike across the quad, having bare feet in the dining room or if it was your birthday). And I did end up in the river on several occasions, although I don't remember it being nearly so low in back then. It's very nice to be back for a trip down memory lane and show my son the place where I used to live. TFTC!

Awesome little find and little cache. Didn't take long to find! TFTC

Have walked past it so many times without ever knowing it was there. Good job

took some searching due to jumping coords but then the instinct kicked in....

Great find at a great serene location. No pen as always (gotta work on that lol) but log is a tad damp.

Log is saturated. Water in cache. Sorry nothing to dry it with and no spare paper. Tftc

Cache wet. Log saturated.

Very sneaky!

I first did a quick visual inspection and didn't see anything. Had to feel around to find this cache

Easy so easy

Well hidden

Can't find!

Really quiet here today. Easy find but log is wet and an obvious replacement bit of paper. Perhaps CO can check it out. Clever container though. TFTC

A beautiful little walkway. Ducks we were watching us find this one. TFTC

Quick find on way in to work last week, sorry for late log. Cheers for the cache and stroll by the river in the quiet university holiday period. Avoid this area during freshers week, I'd say!!

Found it thanks

Found it #31

This entry was edited by sting1606 on Monday, 23 November 2015 at 17:54:40 UTC.

Log dry. Photographing local ducklings was a good diversion for a passing groundsman.

Tftc! Having the children with us certainly helped, great first cache for a friend we took with us

Took us forever to find entry point to walk to this cache. ..but- after much discussion, we got to gz .....before we found gz Warwick was thinking he might get wet but creek bed dry...! Cute hiding place ....won't easily be swept away !!!!!.

Mud covered children

Guess who was sent in to get this. We had a vote, I won but still had to go. Ah well. Tftc

Checked in on this one and it is good to go.

At great cost and personal inconvenience on behalf of a group of elderly residents found cache and recorded our presence as "MS"

found this cache after doing the multi-cache in ilam gardens. it wasn't an easy find for me due to feeling quite confused about where it was hidden. but, after fully looking, i saw something and it was the cache. no water around which was odd but it was a nice day. thank you.

A very squelchy cache to find and a challenge to extract the log sheet, thanks for placing!

Tried this before, but too many muggles around. Today obviously everyone decided to avoid the strong winds and stayed inside. We wanted to walk a bit around, so Ilam Gardens was on the agenda as well as some caches around. However, we have to come back in about a week or so to enjoy the colours. Quick find, but where is all the water? TFTC

Found it. Nice one.

Dirty footwear find. Great site.

Found it; no trolls today but log a bit damp TFTC

We stomped across the field to gz an were really pleased it wasn't muddy. Hadn't been round here before, was nice quick find. TFTC

Lovely area and a clever hide. TFTC

Out on a chilly night caching around the University. First time I've been here. Beautiful unexpected spot. Took me a few moments before I spied the nicke hidden cache. TFTC

Tftc, brother found it before got my feet wet

Took 2 or 3 visits

Looked on, around, and under the bridge to no avail. Hopefully I can find it another day!

Third find on a winter bikeride, clever hide thanks!

Looked every where but didn't find it

Took newbie Becky back here for her first cache! TFTC!

5 of 6 today. Quite hard to get to...

I'd sooner think trolls would be among the area's more amiable inhabitants... given the prevalence of students!

Cheers great spot

Had me stumped for a while, but got there in the end. Thanks for the cache.

Not too hard to find!

quick easy find in the dark tonight

=) Thanks

Tftc

Just located this cache. Grey hiding spot. Maybe the hint is a bit too easy! Fun little find. Signed and hidden again. Got caught in the act by two other cache seekers. Sorry

Looks like this area got a rough time when the earth moved but certainly helps caches. A great spot for a cache but luckily didn't bump into any trolls.

Spent a good 10 or 15 minutes wallowing around in the mud looking for this cache but sadly couldn't find it. Looked under the bridge and all around the bridge to no avail. Hopefully I can find it another day

First cache with the geocache bumbag! TFTC.

A great spot and very quiet at this time of year.

TFTC.

Thanks for this cache in a lovely spot which we somehow had never visited despite close connections to UC! Must come back in spring... We feared we'd get mucky, but that fear proved unfounded. There was even space in the camo for our calling card. A succesful Waitangi Day geocaching.